This was already not going the way you imagined. Kelly might not know anything about what happened or the world you've been sucked into, but that shouldn't matter, right? She's still your girlfriend. She'll be able to help you fix this, somehow. She has to. "I know you don't recognize me..." You begin, and find your confidence already faltering. In movies people are usually terrified when someone shows up unexpectedly. They call the police, they threaten, or maybe they run away. But Kelly's face was already softening.
"Are you lost, sweetheart?" Kelly takes a few steps closer to you, apparently not noticing the snake occasionally emerging from your pocket. But you can only worry about one nightmare at a time. "I think you must have the wrong apartment. Did you just move in or something?" She rests one hand on your shoulder, looking down with the same expression you've seen Kelly make at kittens and puppies and bouquets of flowers. You aren't any of those things!
"No, I'm not lost. I'm not..." What you are is feeling something strange. Maybe she's not afraid, but you are. She's not supposed to be so much bigger than you, looking down at you like a kid. Maybe you can do this over? As your discomfort grows, you begin to feel something else, just as unexplainable. A sudden weakness washes over you, as though you'd just run several flights of stairs. But you aren't sweating, you didn't do anything physically difficult. What's going on?
Kelly squeaks suddenly, her voice full of fear and confusion. She stumbles away from you, and you realize her top is barely clinging to one shoulder. Her underclothes now have nothing to support, and her sweats slide right down off her legs. "What's... sweetheart? Is something... I think you should go. I'm feeling so... strange all the sudden." She takes a few steps back from you, but her feet end up tangled in the sweats, and she flops backward with a pained grunt.
"Not good!" Justin calls, flying off your shoulder and once around the room. "Not good, David! You weren't supposed to do magic."
"I wasn't trying to do magic." It's not like anything happening to Kelly is embarrassing to you--you've been through all this already. But sharing the pain with your girlfriend probably wasn't the way this was supposed to go. How is she going to help you if she has to deal with all the same problems? "Hey Kelly?" You offer your hand to help her up. "I'm sorry about... whatever's happening right now. I didn't mean for this to happen. I was just trying to find someone who knew who I was!"
"I don't know you!" she squeaks. She doesn't take your offered hand, but she doesn't flee from you. Apparently you're not that intimidating. "Sweetheart, I don't know what's happening, but I think you should find your parents."
"You were waiting for me to get home," you say, dropping to your knees beside her. "I'm David. Your boyfriend? How do you think I knew where this was?" You hold up the key for her, showing it off. "I think I might've... accidentally hit you with whatever hit me? Maybe it's contagious or something?"
"Can't be," Kelly insists. "You're not David. He's... older. And not a little girl." She finally manages to sit up. She tries and fails to secure the sweatpants under her, then finally gives up. "What did you do to me?"
"I just told you," you say, annoyance growing. "Kelly, it's me. You can ask me anything you want, I'll prove it! I know your favorite flavor is coconut, I know you've bought three separate sets of fuzzy dice for your car. We met at the graduation dance in senior year, but we didn't start dating for another year after that. I know--"
"Stop it!" she squealed, shoving against your shoulder with one hand. "You can't be David! None of this is happening!"
As she says it, you feel your pocket move. It's Gage, finally growing restless. He slithers out, wrapping around your arm and crawling all the way up to glower at you. "D, we don't have time for this! You're already making me late! Humans take _ages_ to admit when magic happens to them. She'll still be like this after work. But if we're late, Marissa is going to punish both of us."